Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...
...instance, between a work like Mondrian's Composition with Line (Pier and Ocean), 1917, and Van Doesburg's Countercomposition V, 1924. One is a reduction of atmosphere and light, the twinkling and palpitation of reflections on the flat sheet of the northern sea that Mondrian used to gaze at, hour after hour, during his walks at Scheveningen; it is transparent and delicate, reaching stability through addition. By contrast, the Van Doesburg throws an almost physical blast of color from its surface; the tilted red square is both monumental and unstable, fierce in its intensity...
Tell the two First by their gaze, half...
After four hours of sleep back in Israel, we awoke to the first blizzard in Jerusalem in decades. All movement stopped. I could gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the Old City of Jerusalem with the Mount of Olives behind in an eerie white blanket against a gray horizon. It was a spectacular scene, one of utter peace. But I hated to think how Aswan, which had never seen a blizzard, would react to a delay allegedly caused...
...ground is broken in a few days on the Washington Mall for the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. Fifty men who fought in the war will each turn a spade of earth on a spot of hallowed ground 75 yards from Constitution Avenue. The site is by design beneath the gaze of Abraham Lincoln, who held the Union together, and in the morning shadow of the Washington Monument, commemorating the man who guided the Revolution. It is ground where the Viet Nam protesters marched and tented ("It is our turn on the Mall," says Scruggs) and the place where the haunted...